New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.


To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[Paul M]

Correct, we use a different [custom] system i wrote.

[ry215]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Correct, we use a different [custom] system i wrote.

Thanks, can you share it!?

I'm using:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->options['timeformat'], TIMENOW 


but not work

[James Birkett]

Hey Paul.
Great Mod I have it installed, quick question:
If the user is to double-post, and it merges the posts, does it increment the user's post count or keep it the same and treat it as an edit?

[Paul M]

Post count is not increased, its basically a merge.

[Amiga Harrison]

I've just updated from the original Xenon mod (that I've had installed since vB 3.6.4) to this one, and it is working perfectly on vB 3.8.3.

Thank you for the update to what was becoming quite an old but still very useful mod. I like the improvements. Keep up the great work.

[elenh]

Works very nice but they crash with the Expanded Edition Hide hack 3.7.1 from Psionic Vision.
If a member reply then Hiden content dont showing automatic.
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Not unistalled but disabled.

[PAKIDIL]

will this work with 3.7.x

[Paul M]

Probably, of you edited the dependancies in the xml.

[Sayid]

Any tips how I can not make effected this to any thread opener on their threads?

Or at least in first two posts.

btw, thanks for sharing this nice mod.

[Paul M]

Sorry, there is no ability to do that.